At the ‘Microsoft Ignite’ conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella clarified that the company is not pursuing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to beat humans at games but to empower people and organisations “to solve the most pressing problems” of society and economy to make the world a better place. Nadella was the keynote speaker at the conference where he addressed a packed crowd of over 23,000 attendees, primarily IT professionals. He outlined the firm’s four pillars to democratize AI — Agents, applications, services, and infrastructure at Philips Arena. “We are not pursuing AI to beat humans at games. We are pursuing AI so that we can empower every person and every institution that people build with tools of AI so that they can go on to solve the most pressing problems of…